Bangalore, India
During the recently concluded Bricsys International Conference, Erik de Keyser announced that Bricscad V12 is soon going to be available free of cost for students and educational institutions.
The nuts-and-bolts of how exactly this is going to be implemented is still awaited. Erik said there would be a webpage where the students and/or the universities/educational institutions can register, provide some kind of authentication and then get approved for a free license.
This is certainly good news, especially in a country like India, where most universities/engineering colleges have Linux as one of their operating environments. Being the only complete CAD software that can run on Linux, Bricscad can hope to certainly derive an advantage in this space and hope to gain some attention in the educational sector. With this move, Bricsys joins market leaders Autodesk, ESRI , PTC and others who have had a long tradition investing in eductaional institutions and offering their software for free.
Erik also announced a contest for students where the best original idea and application developed using Bricscad would win a prize of 15000 Euros, out of which 10000 Euros would go to the student and 5000 Euros to the school.
He also announced the Bricscad dime-store where students and individuals can create Bricscad applications that should cost less than EUR 20 and sell/support it via this interface. This is again a very good initiative and reminds me of the Autodesk appStore that was launched earlier this year.
Indian universities, engineering colleges and serious developer students from India wishing to build a relationship with Bricsys and Bricscad can contact me for more updates or if you have questions.
In this context, educational institutions means those that offer CAD as part of their mainstream curriculum leading to a diploma or degree. It DOES NOT include training centers where CAD is taught for a fee on a commercial basis. Such organizations who are in the ommercial training business can qualify to apply for an Authorized Training Center for Bricscad status and purchase Bricscad licenses and the training kit at discounted rates than commercial licenses. The ATC status is on a yearly renewable subscription basis. VK Design Techniques in Bangalore is our first Authorzied Training Center for Bricscad and offers piping, structural, HVAC and other domain specific CAD skills using Bricscad as the training platform.
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